1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
      1. Scientists and Post Docs:
      2. Students:
      3. UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

Last updated: March 08, 2012

 


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
Grand Total

       
Program Management
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Triggering & Filtering
Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
 		  

KE Williams, Dawn Detector Calibration Managing flasher runs and coordinating low level calibration effort  
0.15
 
 
 
 		    
0.15

    TFT Coordination TFT board member      
0.10
 
0.10

    Williams, Dawn Total    
0.15
 
0.10
 
0.25

  Toale, Patrick Data Quality Data Quality Lead        
0.15
0.15

    Toale, Patrick Total            
0.15
0.15

PO Zarzhitsky, Pavel Simulation Programs Simulation verification        
0.30
0.30

    Monitoring Monitoring shifts  
0.03
     
0.03

    Zarzhitzky, Pavel Total      
0.03
   
0.30
0.33

GR Xu, Donglian Simulation Programs DeepCore simulation verification        
0.10
0.10

      Detector Calibration Low-energy cascade calibration with flashers  
0.10
     
0.10

    Reconstruction/Analysis Tools Improvements to low energy analysis framework        
0.10
0.10

    Monitoring Monitoring shifts  
0.03
     
0.03

    Xu, Donglian Total      
0.13
   
0.20
0.33

  Pepper, James Detector Calibration I3Live C&V  
0.30
     
0.30

    Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts  
0.03
     
0.03

  Pepper, James Total    
0.33
     
0.33

  Larson, Michael Simulation Programs Noise simulation        
0.15
 		  

    Triggering and Filtering Track engine      
0.15
   

    Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts  
0.03
       

  Larson, Michael Total    
0.03
 
0.15
0.15
0.33

UA Total          
0.67
 
0.25
0.80
1.72


Additional proposed effort, beginning in spring 2012:
 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
Grand Total

       
Program Management
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Triggering & Filtering
Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
 		  

PO Postdoc To be hired Simulation programs Extension of GENIE to higher energies, GENIE/nugen comparison      
0.15
 
0.15

    Reconstruction/Analysis Tools Hybrid reconstruction tools        
0.15
0.15

    Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts  
0.03
     
0.03

  PO TBD Total    
0.03
 
0.15
0.15
0.33

Faculty:

Dawn Williams – Institutional Lead, Calibration Coordinator, TFT Board Member

Patrick Toale – Data Quality Lead



Scientists and Post Docs:

Pavel Zarzhitzky (postdoc) – simulation verification, tau double pulse analysis

Postdoc to be hired – Extension of GENIE to higher energies, GENIE/nugen comparison, hybrid reconstruction tools, monitoring shifts (beginning in spring 2012)



Students:

Donglian Xu (graduate student) - simulation verification, atmospheric tau appearance analysis

James Pepper (graduate student) - verification monitoring integration into IceCube Live

Michael Larson (graduate student) - noise simulation, track engine, monitoring shifts


UA General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

The Alabama Group’s major responsibilities and contributions towards maintenance and operations of the IceCube experiment include:

·   Primary institutional responsibility for overseeing flasher operations and software.

·   Major responsibility for data quality verification.

·   Major responsibility for calibration coordination

·   Major responsibility for software coordination

Analysis: The main analysis focus at the University of Alabama is searching for the lowest energy tau neutrinos that are identifiable “double pulses”. At energies at and above 100 TeV, the “double bang” signature of a high energy tau neutrino becomes a double pulse in the IceCube waveform. There is no appreciable tau signal from the atmosphere at these energies, so a tau signature such as a double pulse would be strong evidence of cosmological origin. At lower energies, Alabama is undertaking a search for the appearance of atmospheric tau neutrinos from oscillation, which would manifest as an excess of cascade-like events.

Alabama is developing an algorithm to identify double pulse waveforms both online and offline. The online algorithm will eventually be implemented in the online optical follow-up. The offline tau search and the atmospheric appearance analysis require high quality cascade reconstruction, so Alabama is also working on single cascade reconstruction algorithms and calibration of cascades with flashers.

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